Bush and Cheney regularly used torture in the war on terror. Then they
lied about it claiming with straight faces that the United States does not
torture. Many innocent people were tortured. To help fool the USA
public (many of whom condone torture and make apologies for it) they would send
those to be tortured to other nations known for being skilled at torture.
This is a story of one of the many torture incidents.

USA sends an innocent man accused of terrorism
to be tortured at the hands of Egypt's secret police.

Spoiler Warning: below is a brief summary of the entire movie.
And some curse words.

Rendition is a "surrender" or "handing over" of persons or property, such as
extradition of criminal suspects.

A terrorist bombing kills an American envoy in Egypt.

An Egyptian named Anwar El-Ibrahimiwho has lived in the United States for 20+ years, has graduated from NYU and
who is married to an American gets off an 18 hour flight from South Africa.
He is apprehended at the airport when he arrives in the USA.

The U.S. sends Anwar to Egypt to be interrogated knowing that they regularly
use torture.

An American CIA operative named Douglas Freeman observes the interrogations
and is shocked by their brutality. He believes that the man being tortured
is probably innocent, but he doesn't want to lose his job, so he remains quiet.
But it tears him up inside. He calls CIA officer Corrine Whitman to speak
to her about Anwar El-Ibrahimi. She basically tells him to buzz off.
She only wants to know if the torturer wants to stop. No. So the
torture will continue.

The torturer is also a rather nasty father. His daughter wants to marry
her boy friend, but he wants to arrange a marriage for her. Later she runs
away from home.

Meanwhile, Anwar's wife Isabella tries to find out what happened to her
husband, but gets nowhere. All the authorities are mum on the point.
The very pregnant Isabella seeks the help of an old school mate named Alan
Smith. He works for Senator Hawkins. He tries to help Isabella but
he becomes just as stymied as Isabella. All he really knows is that her
husband was accused of terrorism. He tries to get information from Corrine
Whitman. Although she knows the story about Anwar, she lies and says she
does not know the man. She herself believes strongly in the use of torture
saying that it saves many lives. (That is as long as none of her family or
friends are tortured, of course.) Smith pushes Whitman on the matter
and gets scolded by his boss after Whitman complains.

Freeman asks his Egyptian friend the Minister of the Interior to sign a
release form for Anwar. He tells the friend that since America sent the
prisoner to Egypt, the man is his responsibility. The friend worries about
what will happen to his reputation.

Isabella confronts Whitman but she refuses to tell her anything. She
screams at her but is forced to retreat by two large security guards.

Freeman gets the release form. He goes to the prison to take Anwar out
of there.

The daughter of the torturer sees pictures of some of her father's handiwork
and is very upset. And there is even a picture of him in the booklet of
torture. She drops the album and runs out of the room. Her father
arrives to grab her, but she gets away from him. Her father sits down at a
restaurant on the patio. She sees her boyfriend strapped with explosives
and runs to him to stop him. He seems as though he is in a trance.
He stops for her. She begs Khalid not to do it. It is her father.
He cries. Seeing his long delay, his henchmen shoot and kill Khalid.
When Khalid dies, his hand comes off the detonator and it ignites. Freeman
gets his shirt very bloody. The torturer loses his daughter.

Freeman calls the Washington Post and asks to be connected to
editorial. The torturer goes home. His wife beats his chest as she
knows her daughter is dead. Freeman and Anwar go down to the Mediterranean
Sea. Freeman gives the ex-prisoner a passport. Thereby begins
Anwar's long journey back to the USA.

The US fellow who arranged the rendition of Anwar calls up Freeman and asks:
"What the fuck are you doing? Do you have him?" No, says Freeman.
He hangs up on the bastard.

Whitman gets calls on the story about the rendition of Anwar. Anwar
arrives home in a taxi. His son plays with a soccer ball on the lawn.
He greets his father with a hug. His wife comes outside with her new baby.
Husband and wife hug.

The Bush-Cheney team has blackened the reputation by their immoral actions.
I know there are many Red Necks who excuse torture as long as it's not practices
on Americans by other nations and make excuses for it. But they are as
corrupt and immoral as Bush and Cheney. The torture is very brutal,
but it may show some naive people how terrible it is to send men and women to be
tortured. If you would oppose your own relatives or you yourself being
tortured , you ought to be against all torture. There were lots of
Hollywood stars. I am sure they wanted to aid in a harsh condemnation of
the US policy of torturing people.